Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
Actually no, The longer they go green, The easier a better driver or car or both can move forward with the Wing as all the air is dirty.
I still say the heats suck unless you got two grooves wide apart. The leader has clean air the whole race and its Car, fifty feet, Car, fifty feet, Car.
The features can be outstanding if they get long green runs. If a lot of yellows then the majority of passing is on the first lap of a restart.
This contradicts what I found during my 20 years ... As far as Long green runs possibly creating outstanding features, I've seen it go both ways
I get what Charles is saying and do agree that traffic can help a driver coming from the rear but I think it applies wore to the big tracks like Eldora. Smaller tracks like Attica, Limaland, Fremot, the cautions can help tremendously in coming from the back. Of course it helps that the leaders get back in traffic quicker and "aero" is not as much as a factor.
